Yes there was a shop train here that ran from downtown burlington up the hill
to west burlington shops.dave lotz has this train well documented in the
bulletin he did on the shops.I know that the shops was openned and working on
asatruday due to a holiday early in the week and the train pulled out in front
of one of the time freight highballing east and telescope two or three of the
wood coaches together.i don't have the date handy but maybe dave can fill in
the gaps here
bill ewinger
burlington
--- On Sun, 10/5/08, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com> wrote:
From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Shop Train
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, October 5, 2008, 9:56 PM
Leo and et al
I'd be 99.44% sure there was never a shop train at Havelock...Lincoln (of which
Havelock was merged into in the 1930's I think) is not an industrial area like
Aurora..Eola etc on the Q or like Silvis...Quad Cities on the RI.? Where the
employee population is spread out over a wide area.
I'd guess that 75% or better of the shop employees lived within walking
distance of the shops at Havelock.?
There was a shop train for the RI shop employees at Silvis which ran until the
late 60's or so...Phil Weibler correct me on the final date.? The train
originated at Rock Island...went west? to WEst Davenport and then proceed back
east making many stops picking up employees for the Silvis shops.
When I started with the Rock Island in the Management Training program in
December 1959 I spent a good part of the first two months of 1960 in the Quad
cities area visiting the shops and related activities.? I rode the train each
morning and back to the hotel at Moline in the afternoon.? I was told that
there was a 25 cent charge for non shop employees to ride, but no one ever came
through to collect. The train crew was just a regular switch crew, who could
not?have cared less about who rode.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: qutlx1@aol.com
To: cbq@yahoogroups. com
Sent: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 9:30 pm
Subject: [CBQ] Shop Train
Petes comment about the checkers brought something to mind.
The Q not only used "buses",vans to transport operating dept crews but at some
locations had trains to move folks in the non ops depts.
In my researching the BRT/UTU files I found evidence of the long rumored "shop
trains" from Somonauk to Aurora that brought employees to town and returned
them home. Still looking for documentation on the train that ran from the
Aurora shops to Eola with operating and non operating folks whos' jobs were
moved to Eola after the Aurora frt yard was closed and Eola opened.
Wasn't there a "shop train" from Burlington to West Burlington shops ? What
about Havelock?
Leo Phillipp
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